Flower Quotes - Page 18

• Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Modesty, Virtue, Breasts

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Growing Up, Waiting, Grandfather

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

  1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published 1842).

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• Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

  William Wordsworth

  Home, Years, Long

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.365

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• The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

  William Wordsworth

  Simple, Purpose, Veils

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.123

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• Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Retirement, Women, Rose

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.81

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• Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

  Craig Stone

  Block, Sun, Machines

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• Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

  Alfred Noyes

  Towers, Tolls, Fading

  Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.60, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Uplifting, Passion

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beauty, Thinking, Hands

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.76, Applewood Books

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• When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rain, Heart, Sunshine

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Living Buddha, Living Christ”, p.11, Random House

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• A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

  Charles Kingsley

  Garden, Rainbow, Together

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Appreciation, Art, Mean

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• I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.

  Helen Mirren

  Life Lesson, Sunshine, Journey

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• Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sorrow, Vines, Waste

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.429

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• One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Adventure, Track

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• No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.

  Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

  Summer, Memories, Home

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• Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Blue, Violet, Looks

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1847). “Poems”, p.54

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• The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!

  Densey Clyne

  Beauty, Butterfly, Heart

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• I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.

  John Constable

  Eye, Dark, Clouds

  John Constable (1968). “John Constable's Correspondence”

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• We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

  Josh Radnor

  Weed, Water, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

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• Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dark, Sky, Looks

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• Of course, fresh flowers are the answer to any June gloom you may be feeling. Flowers really do solve all problems.

  Mia Moretti

  June, Feelings, Answers

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dying, Helping, Vodka

  Source: www.elle.com

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